Alicios relocates to Congo after 24 years

Congolese Singer Alicious Theluji

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For a while, she has been quiet in the music scene and says this is because she has relocated back home after it became peaceful.

Nairobi. Congolese singer Alicious Theluji arrive in Kenya 24 years ago as a six-year-old child and she spent all her childhood and adult life in the Kenyan capital but she has finally decided to move back to Congo. Word from close associates has it that she has gone back to her roots in Goma in Eastern Congo where she was born.

For a while, she has been quiet in the music scene and says this is because she has relocated back home after it became peaceful.

“I have actually moved back to Congo for some time. I came to Kenya while I was six years old. I have lived here, I have grown up here and I feel like there are things I really need to learn from Congo,” Alicious says.

Alicious, who burst into the limelight in 2012 when she dropped her first single ‘Mpita Njia’ featuring Ugandan singer Juliana Kanyamozi, moved to Kenya with her mother to escape political violence in DRC.

The now 30 year-old and a mother of one has been one of the few female musicians doing rather well in the Kenyan music industry.

After her breakthrough with the ‘Mpitia Njia’ hit, she went on to feature in another club banger ‘Mobimba’ alongside the now defunct boys band P-Unit.

Over the years, she has released several songs and collabos with Kenyan heavyweights including ‘Posa ya bolingo’, ‘Anita’, ‘Nyumbani’ featuring Kagwe Mungai and ‘Ya Nini’ featuring rapper Khaligraph Jones.